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UNITED STATES PATENT' OFFTCE.

ANDREW C. WOLFE, OFFREEPORT,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE THIRD TO JOSEPH F. HE'WITT, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

PHONOGRAPHIC ENUNCIATOR FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,011, dated October 2, 1900.

Application filed December 26, 1899. Serial No. 741,546. (No model.)

To cti/Z whom it may concern: the disk 9. Arranged beneath the armature 55l Be it known that I, ANDREW O. WOLFE, a 13 is a pair of magnets 15, connected by wires citizen of the UnitedStates ofAmerica, resid- .16 to a battery 17 and to a push or contact ing at Freeport, (Freeport post-ofce,) in the button 18.

county of Armstrong and State of PennsylzIn operation a record of all the stations,

vania, have invented certain new and useful crossings, and points of interest to the pas- 6o Improvementsin EnunciatorsforStreet-Railsengers being placed upon the record-cylinway Cars and other Purposes; and I do hereder 3 in the usual manner and the disk dby declare the following to be a'full, clear, vided by the projecting teeth 11 and its molo and exact description thereof, reference be- Vtion stopped at the end of each separate aning had to the accompanying drawings, which nouncem ent, which willnecessitate the spac- 65 form a part of this specification. ing of the said teeth at irregular intervals, as

My invention relates to an improved enunshown on the drawings. Upon approaching ciator for street-railway cars and other pura crossing the conductor presses the contactposes; and it consists in a graphophone suitbutton 18 to complete lthe circuit to the batably mounted, the record-*cylinder of which tery 17,which energizes the magnets 15, draw- 7o is used for announcing stations, street-crossing the armature 13 downward, thereby eleings, and various points of interest along the vating the lever-point 10 over its engaged line of railway, a means under the control of tooth 11 and allowing the recordcylinder 3 to z o the conductor to stop and start the apparatus, revolve until the said point is engaged with together with the certain details of constructhe next tooth 11 of the disk 9. During this 75 tion and combination of parts, as will be fully movement of the record-cylinder the instrudescribed hereinafter. ment has announced the station, crossing, or

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is place of interest corresponding to the numa front elevation of an ordinary graphophone her of the tooth.

or similar instrument, to which is connected The one record-cylinder 3, if not sufficient, 8O a means for stopping and starting the same, may be replaced by a second or third to cover the movement of which is regulated to correthe trip and return. spond to the number of words announced, The advantage of this enunciator is that 3o the same being arranged in accordance with the stations, dac., may be announced in any vmy invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of language `or in two 0r more languages and 85 the device for controlling the movement of keep the passengers posted and will be found the record-cylinder. particularly useful in cosmopolitan cities or To construct an enunciator in accordance in cities entertaining a large number of for' with my invention, I provide a graphophone eigners.

or other similar instrument, consisting of the Having thus described my invention, what 9o motor 1, the record-cylinder 3, the driving- I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patshaft it, the reproducer 6, the horn 5, and ent, isy other well-known parts common to this class In combination with a graphophone or other 4o of machines not necessary to enumerate. I like machine, the record-cylinder 3 the disk n attach to the frame a shaft 8, having a small 9 for governing the movement of the said rec- 95 pinion 7,' meshing with alarge driving-gear 2 ord-cylinder, the said disk being provided and also fitted with a large disk or wheel 9. with a series of peripheral teeth 11, arranged/ This disk 9 is formed with a number of peat irregular intervals, the s'pace between be'- ripheral projections or teeth 11, arranged at ing proportioned to the number of Words used irregular intervals, the space between each in making the announcement, as and for the Ioo proportioned to the number of words required purpose described. to announce the station or place of interest In testimony whereof I have hereunto afto the passengers. Pivoted to the frame of ixed my signature in the presence of two sub- 5o the phonograph is a lever 12, one endlO bent scribing witnesses.

to engage with the teeth 11 of the wheel and ANDREW O. WOLFE. the other provided with an armature 13 and Witnesses: the said armature fitted with a spring 14 to JOHN GROETZINGER,

keep the lever 12 at all times in contact with H. BECSER. 

